the invasion of georgia to recent events in crimea, we have seen a clear pattern of behavior from the kremlin. defense exports from the eu to russia have amounted to about 700 million euros in the last three years not counting the 1.2 billion order for french warships, isn't it about time these were targeted through eu sanctions? >> i think my honorable friend is right on this issue. set of set out a clear sanctions as a result of russia's behavior. we have taken steps in terms of putting asset freezes and travel bans on named individuals. we have taken diplomatic and other steps and set out stage three sanctions that we think if furtheraken incursions are set out. we believe that restrictions on arms sales should be part of that. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister promised by the end of this parliament, a third of this cabinet would be women. we know that the former culture secretary had to go but we now have only three out of 22. does he agree with the new culture secretary that this is because government appointments should always be made on merit? >> what i said was that i wanted to see a